Boriss said that Safari is not an "ideal" browser for Windows, as Apple puts more focus on software for its own Mac OS X platform than it does for Windows. She said that Safari is the least likely to be the browser Windows users want. She offered a number of alternatives, including random order of the top five browsers, or probability ordering by percentage market share.

@Seti -- people not reading is why so many vendors include pre-checked add-on installations.

@BogMan -- IE8 has never crashed on my system. Have you installed all updates? Did you allow error reporting? It could also be a problematic add-on. Did you try IE8 without add-ons? Click Start-> All Programs-> Accessories-> System Tools-> Internet Explorer (no Add-ons).